No need to turn it off for good, 5 minutes every hour or two would be a good reminder
Like Drump ... this idiot is more bark than bite ...
'hey folks, I'm gonna kinda sorta maybe defend you ... and even if I don't, I'll tell you that I did a year from now'
Reminder also, that the electric grid is more complicated than this. We in America won't lose power if he flips a switch, instead our municipality will be forced to purchase power from other sources. You won't be inconvenienced, you will just have to pay more.
Save for maybe full-scale nuclear war, the end result of every possible action by this administration and the people responding to them will ALL have the effect of making each of us pay more. This is the plan, this is why they're doing it, they're trying to drain the wealth of the average American so we become like any other developing nation with a massive population living in shanties and a wealthy elite who control everything and have no limitations to what they can do, because all the governing systems and oversight has been stripped. This is the plan, it's not particularly clever, but it works fantastically well, just ask every other nation that's been toppled from within by obnoxious authoritarians. America is not immune.
Our only real hope here is that they move too fast and make people uncomfortable enough that people start rallying sooner than later. The ousting always comes, the worry is that it will be too late to save democracy and all the myriads of systems that have maintained a functional nation for a couple centuries.
I've voted against Doug Ford 3 times now, but saying he's more bark than bite isn't really true. He's already directed the LCBO to pull American booze from shelves and cease new orders.
Conservative 101
Did he ever rip up the Starlink contract?
EDIT: He did it!
He dropped it on the floor and bent over to pick it up and ripped open his pants instead
What’s a word that sounds like no, is spelled with the letters n and o and makes is defined in the dictionary as
“a way that shows a negative response”
So to answer your question, he did in fact not rip up that contract. Hopefully today he does rip it up.
Update: Ford has apparently ripped up the starlink contract with F'elon Musk ask his nazi party. Good!!
I think pushing the button requires waaaaay more backbone that Druggie has. Just sayin'.
Isn't Ford, like, the Donald Trump of Canada?
He's more like Eric Adams. It happens to be that he's a conservative suburbanite but his guiding principle is having power and making money, there's no ideology mixed in
To be fair to Donny, he doesn’t have ideology either. All he has is his own narcissism.
There’s no policy consistency whatsoever from Trump’s first term to his second term. The free trade agreements that he is now so unceremoniously dumping by imposing tariffs are the very same ones HE signed during his first term!
Trump has no plan whatsoever. He just flies by the seat of his pants and licks the boots of the biggest authoritarian assholes he can find (Musk and Putin).
He has a core guiding ideology of American exceptionalism and imperialism. America first. God bless America, specifically. Not that he understands any of this, most of it comes from intuition and having the worst scourge of mankind whispering policy pitches in his ears, but I'd say that much is very consistent. It's just that it got so worse from one term to another that it looks like a departure - but to anyone paying attention to the things he tried in his first term, this is a continuation.
Edit: for instance, he signed the NAFTA deal he's complaining about, but it wasn't because he liked it, he signed because that's the best his team was able to negotiate. They told him to sign, he signed it. But the same dumbasses that advocated for the tariffs back then, advocated for them again this time. So once again, he just nods and signs, as long as his team says the right MAGA words. The moderates were expelled from his team because Trump wants to be even MAGAy than before. It's the same ideology, with less checks and balances.
I think that’s mostly narcissism. But moreover, right now he’s acting against American Empire. He’s taking actions to isolate and diminish the USA. By abandoning alliances the US worked so hard to build, Trump is handing power to authoritarian enemies such as Russia and China.
He's kind of old school corrupt conservative. He generally tends to stay away from anything socially conservative and just focuses on blatantly enriching himself. He's been handling this whole situation really well though.
Not exactly. He's actually gotten along great with Trudeau this whole time, so it's fair to say the populist firebrand thing is an act for the cameras. His brother was the mayor of Toronto and started the whole dynasty (as far as I know), then died. One theory might be that the crazy was not shared.
The other conservative premiers have been taking a much more appeasment-y tack. The worst one is easily Danielle Smith. Poilievre (the federal conservative leader) also seems a bit lost about how to handle this.
Not at all, please don't Americanize our politics
I mean, he is a big, blond blowhard that rams through culture war policies, so there's similarities.
Dougie was happy about Trump's election until recently. He did at least give lip service about retaliation at least. It's complicated....
Not saying he shouldn’t do it, but the US would have the power back very quickly and Trump would spin it to his supporters as an act of aggression. I don’t think most of the people who temporarily get inconvenienced would see it as a wake up call. America is too far gone. I say that as an American from Michigan that lives in Canada.
Do it! Show some backbone. Make us feel the consequences of stupid policies and maybe our leader might just shut the hell up.
As someone with limited knowledge of Canadian politics, who is Doug Ford? If he isn't the prime minister, how does he have significant power and influence to go against the US?
Also, if he is that powerful, he can teach us how to!
Doug Ford is the Premier (think Governor, sorta) of Ontario, our most populous province. The power company might be owned by the provincial government, too
Could a Canadian governor have the power to stop electricity being exported to another country? I imagine that this has to be discussed and enacted on the national level.
Canadian governor
Premier. Not governor.
In Canada, the electricity sector is under provincial jurisdiction, not federal, so this would not need to be discussed on a national level.
This would mostly punish people who never wanted Trump in power. It's a purely spiteful move, which in all honesty wouldn't hurt Trump. The executive branch would just say not my problem.
What would you suggest we do instead?
Possibly. Everyone is out for blood, which is a refreshing change from sticking our head in the sand like we have for so long, but being out for blood famously can also go too far.
The people actually in charge are taking a very balanced approach. For now, dollar-for-dollar tariffs are the only thing that's for sure. The long list of other ways to fuck with the US are being held in reserve for a bit later.
We didn't want this either but the biggest difference here is we didn't get a choice.
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